15-letter words that end in l
- for good or ill — If you say that something is happening or will happen for good or ill, you mean that it is out of anyone's control whether it happens and what its effects will be.
- fourth official — In football, the fourth official is an official who assists the referee and assistant referees from the side of the pitch.
- franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
- friedmann model — any model of the universe deduced from a homogeneous, isotropic solution of Einstein's field equations without a cosmological constant. Such models form the mathematical basis for many modern cosmologies and provide for expansion or contraction of the universe.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
- geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
- george marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- get out of jail — to get out of a difficult situation
- give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
- glossographical — relating to glossography
- gnotobiological — relating to gnotobiology
- go through hell — If you go through hell, or if someone puts you through hell, you have a very difficult or unpleasant time.
- go to the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- ground squirrel — any of several terrestrial rodents of the squirrel family, as of the genus Citellus and chipmunks of the genus Tamias. circ;circ;
- half-successful — achieving or having achieved success.
- hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
- heath speedwell — a temperate scrophulariaceous plant, Veronica officinalis, having small blue or pinkish white flowers
- hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
- heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
- hexahydrothymol — menthol.
- hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
- horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypochondriacal — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
- imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
- improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- inter-fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.